Just for the sake of completeness (though you probably already know)
hydrogen:~# hostap_diag wlan0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'
NICID: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.0.5
STAID: id=0x001f v1.3.3 (station firmware)
Jay Strauss wrote:
> Jouni, again thanks for the help so far
>>>>If you have a PCI/mini-PCI version of Prism2.5/3 card, it should be
>>enough to just load the hostap_pci kernel module with modprobe.
>>> Ok, I know how to do this. But it seems to be loading without me doing
> anything:
>> hydrogen:~# lsmod | grep hostap
> hostap_pci 59984 0
> hostap 124904 1 hostap_pci
>>>>The station firmware version (v1.3.3) you are using is too old for
>>WPA support which makes wpa_supplicant refuse to use this card. In
>>other words, you would need to download a firmware upgrade to get
>>v1.7.0 or newer station firmware.
>>> This might be a problem. I just searched IBMs website for firmware
> updates and I only found 1, dated 2003/05/19, firmware version
> 1.04.02.00, which I suspect based on it's release date will be too old,
> although I admit don't know. Furthermore its only offered as a windows
> update exe.
>>http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40236>> I found a site: http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/ (which you are
> referenced) which has links to other more recent versions of intersil
> firmware.
>> I'm a bit lost as to what my next step is.
>> - Do I need to update the station firmware only?
> - Do I need to update primary firmware & station firmware?
> - Where would you suggest I find these updates for my card?
>> Thanks again
> Jay
>>>>> Jouni Malinen wrote:
>>>On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:42:50PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
>>>>>>>>>At this point I thought I was getting somewhere. so I changed my
>>>/etc/pcmcia/config file and added:
>>>>>>device "hostap_pci"
>>> class "network" module "hostap_pci"
>>>>>>hostap_pci is not used with PC Cards and as such, this should not be in
>>cardmgr configuration. If you have a PCI/mini-PCI version of Prism2.5/3
>>card, it should be enough to just load the hostap_pci kernel module with
>>modprobe. How this done properly depends on the distribution used.
>>>>>>>>>hydrogen:~# wpa_supplicant -d -Dhostap -ieth0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
>>>>>>If the interface is still eth0, I would guess you are still using
>>Orinoco driver, not Host AP driver.
>>>>>>>>>hostap_pci: 0.3.7 - 2005-02-12 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
>>>hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
>>>>>>>wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
>>>wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.5
>>>wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.3
>>>>>>>wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
>>>>>>However, this here is looking much more like Host AP driver. Please note
>>that the interface name here is wlan0..
>>>>The station firmware version (v1.3.3) you are using is too old for WPA
>>support which makes wpa_supplicant refuse to use this card. In other
>>words, you would need to download a firmware upgrade to get v1.7.0 or
>>newer station firmware.
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